They captured the moment a star “swallows” a planet.

“We’re seeing what happens to Earth,” said American researchers who, for the first time, showed a way for an extinct star to “eat” a planet.

By: Angelica Andrade

The evidence for what happens to the Sun and Earth in about 5,000 million years may change, the researchers said, because they are more clear about what happens when a star ends its existence.

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For the above, they rely on precious doubts, which is why they speculate that its original dimension may span hundreds or even thousands of cycles. It devours the planets that orbit it. However, until now it was impossible to reach a direct source, and they had never captured a similar phenomenon, until this was achieved by the group of scientific products of the United States, which came to the journal Nature and published it, whose message is strong, negative and challenging: “We are looking at the future of the Earth.”

The above is described in the comments of Kishale T, researcher, teacher and theorist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, MIT, and lead author of the work. It should be noted that the analysis describes the Milky Way, a phenomenon discovered in the galaxy. It is approximately 13,000 light years away, Near the constellation Aquila, or the Eagle, a star became 100 times brighter in ten days, then disappeared, producing a cold and lingering signal. Finally, after many observations, scientists have come up with a definition: “It is a dying star that has run out of fuel and expanded and swallowed a nearby planet. “The same thing will happen in our solar system in 5,000 million years, when the sun dies it will swell and take Mercury, Venus and our planet with it,” one of the researchers asserted.